Close down old units and reduce power tariff; BSES to Delhi Govt
Updated: Apr 26, 2014 03:17:38pm
New Delhi, Apr 26 (KNN) Amidst debate over the tariff in the national capital, the power distribution company, BSES has written to the Delhi Government seeking its intervention to close down inefficient fuel guzzling old plants and shifting fuel linkages to new plants by which it can save around Rs 770 crore and result in a retail tariff reduction of 5-7 per cent.
In a letter to the Chief Secretary of Delhi NCT earlier this month, BSES has recommended that the old plants such as Rajghat, GT Gas Turbine (GT) Stations of IPGCL (Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited) and three units of BTPS (Badarpur Thermal Power Station) be shut down; and the fuel be shifted to new plants at Aravali and Pragati III at Bawana which have not been performing to the optimum level for want of fuel.
BSES has highlighted the fact that power costs are normally around 80 per cent of the revenues, where the tariffs are cost reflective.
Further, generation costs of power plants specific to Delhi have dramatically increased, rising by as much as 48 per cent between 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, it said.
Under the circumstances, BSES which is a part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group (ADAG) has advocated rationalisation / optimisation of generation costs of plants specific to Delhi.
Listing details and statistics of cost and saving by such a move, “Stability of power availability to Delhi will actually increase through this shift of fuel to the high yielding plants,” BSES has stressed. (KNN/ES)
In a letter to the Chief Secretary of Delhi NCT earlier this month, BSES has recommended that the old plants such as Rajghat, GT Gas Turbine (GT) Stations of IPGCL (Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited) and three units of BTPS (Badarpur Thermal Power Station) be shut down; and the fuel be shifted to new plants at Aravali and Pragati III at Bawana which have not been performing to the optimum level for want of fuel.
BSES has highlighted the fact that power costs are normally around 80 per cent of the revenues, where the tariffs are cost reflective.
Further, generation costs of power plants specific to Delhi have dramatically increased, rising by as much as 48 per cent between 2011-2012 and 2012-2013, it said.
Under the circumstances, BSES which is a part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group (ADAG) has advocated rationalisation / optimisation of generation costs of plants specific to Delhi.
Listing details and statistics of cost and saving by such a move, “Stability of power availability to Delhi will actually increase through this shift of fuel to the high yielding plants,” BSES has stressed. (KNN/ES)
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